Senior Theatre Practitioner | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 Dependent on experience |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2024 |
| Location: | Burton On Trent, DE13 0RB |
| Company: | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6123610/320-SURG-BUR-0991 |
Summary
We are an innovative and expanding Theatre Service across a wide geographic area, at the forefront of patient care, with a well-established enhanced recovery programme. UHDB (University Hospitals of Derby and Burton ) theatres currently covers, an operational area of 36 Theatres across the Royal Derby Hospital site, 15 Theatres at the Queens Hospital site, 1 Theatre at Sir Robert Peel, and 2 Theatres at the Ilkeston site.
We are continually growing and on the lookout for enthusiastic individuals passionate about delivering safe effective care across all sites.
Within QHB theatres we have an opportunity for a Senior Theatre Practitioner role within the following speciality areas :
Anaesthetic Support
Ophthalmology
Recovery
Urology
Full time and part time hours are available. The role holder will be required to cover a flexible shift pattern.
Main Duties
• Deliver safe quality care for patients during their peri-operative phase of care.
• To support, coordinate and actively assist in the management and organisation of care within the operating department.
• To actively lead daily theatre teams
• To provide senior support and guidance for theatre teams and to work with their line managers for patient safety.
• To provide scrub and or anaesthetic support within the theatre setting
• Provide quality planned care for patients during their peri-operative phase of care by ensuring all team members deliver quality patient care by providing appropriate clinical and managerial leadership.
• Lead in the delivery of patient care, during a list or specified period of time.
• Ensure that patient safety checks are carried out in accordance with the policy and that all practitioners adhere to the policy.
• Contribute to quality improvement.
• Develop and enhance the skills and knowledge of others and self.
• Promote best evidence based practice within own scope of practice.
• To ensure a dual role for recovery and anaesthetic posts
• Apply legislation, policies and procedures correctly.
• Achieve agreed objectives and demonstrating Trust behaviours at all times.
Closing date of applications: 2 May 2024
Interview date: 15 May 2024
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts about our Trust:
• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
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This advert closes on Thursday 2 May 2024